- for simulations where the yPlus is needed for other purposes or
just for obtaining information on the patches it can be useful
to disable field writing and save disk space.
The 'writeFields' flag (as per some other function objects)
has been added control writing the yPlus volume field.
If unspecified, the default value is 'true' so that the yPlus
function object continues to work as before.
However, this default may change to 'false' in the future to align
with other function objects.
ENH: wallShearStress: support disable of field writing
- similar to yPlus, the write() method combines writing information
and writing the fields. The 'writeFields' flag allows some
separation of that logic.
- enable 'faceZones' support.
- enable 'writeFile' support to better control file output.
- rename 'PatchPostProcessing' as 'ParticlePostProcessing' for better clarity.
- fix#1808
- enable 'faceZone' support.
- introduce 'cloudFunctionObjectTools' to simplify collection of particle info
on patches or face zones.
- enable 'writeFile' support to better control file output.
- rename 'PatchParticleHistogram' as 'ParticleHistogram' for better clarity.
- accept plain lists (space or comma separated) as well as the
traditional OpenFOAM lists. This simplifies argument handling
with job scripts.
For example,
simpleFoam -ioRanks 0,4,8 ...
vs
simpleFoam -ioRanks '(0 4 8)' ...
It is also possible to select the IO ranks on a per-host basis:
simpleFoam -ioRanks host ...
- expose rank/subrank handling as static fileOperation methods
- sometimes the last commit is not enough information about
the tested state (especially with extensive rebasing).
Also provide the short context of some previous commits.
- provide uniformMixed conditions for finite-area and finite-volume.
These are intended to replace the exprMixed condition but allow
the full range of different PatchFunction1 and Function1 types.
- add uniformFixedGradient to finite-area for completeness.
Note:
- still some possible difficulties with the order of evaluation.
- eg, using an expression within the 'U' field that depends
of the surface 'phi' field before that is constructed.
In this case, the 'value' entry is really needed.
- the default (uninitialised) value for edge connections of -1
could be confused with a tagged finiteArea patch, which used
(-patchid-1) encoding. This would lead to messages about erroneous
processor-processor addressing, but is in fact an mismatched edge
connection.
Now tag the finiteArea patch as (-patchid-2) to avoid this ambiguity
and correctly generate an "Undefined connection:" message instead.
Properly flush the VTP writers before raising a FatalError
to ensure that they are not prematurely truncated.
Open Point:
The base problem of "Undefined connection:" is largely related to
multiply-connected face edges (ie, from the underlying volume mesh).
Not easily remedied in the finiteArea generation.
TUT: basic finiteArea setup on motorBike
- with (nPollProcInterfaces < 0) it does the following:
- loop, waiting for some requests to finish
- for each out-of-date interface, check if its associated
requests have now finished (ie, the ready() check).
- if ready() -> call updateInterfaceMatrix()
In contrast to (nPollProcInterfaces > 0) which loops a specified
number of times with several calls to MPI_Test each time, the
(nPollProcInterfaces < 0) variant relies on internal MPI looping
within MPI_Waitsome to progress communication.
The actual dispatch still remains non-deterministic (ie, waiting for
some requests to finish does not mean that any particular interface
is eligible for update, or in any particular order). However, using
Waitsome places the tight looping into the MPI layer, which results
in few calls and eliminates behaviour dependent on the value of
nPollProcInterfaces.
TUT: add polling to windAroundBuildings case (for testing purposes)
- separate broadcast times from reduce/gather/scatter time
- separate wait times from all-to-all time
- support invocation counts, split off requests time/count
from others to avoid flooding the counts
- support 'detail' switch to increase the output information.
Format may change in the future
- wish to deprecate and remove exprFixedValue in the future since the
same functionality is possible using patch expressions with a
uniformFixedValue condition.
- replaced PstreamBuffers mechanism with globalIndex for both gather
and scatter operations. Use scheduled communication by default, but
is selectable.
- reduced communication with ensemble averaging and no-write
- in makeFaMesh, the serial fields are now only read on the master
process and broadcast to the other ranks. The read+distribute is
almost identical to that used in redistributePar, except that in
this case entire fields are sent and not a zero-sized subset.
- improved internal faMesh checking for files so that the TryNew
method works with distributed roots.
- for repeated tests (eg, during bisection) can be used to preserve
the existing directory as tutorialsTest.bak01,
tutorialsTest.bak02, ... (max of 10).
- preserve the commit information as tutorialsTest/commit-info
to help document the current or backup test results.
- functionality similar to that provided by foamToEnsight, foamToVTK
which allows blocking out patches (eg, outer walls, inlet/outlet)
that are not particularly interesting to visualize
- new submodels:
- 'equalBinWidth': groups data into bins of equal widths (previous behaviour)
- 'unequalBinWidth': groups data into bins of unequal widths
- output files per time-step are replaced with a single output file
- silently deprecates the input entries: 'setFormat' and 'formatOptions'
